But before exploring the possibility of extraterrestrial origin, there are several other items in this article that raise questions. For starters, approximately ninety eight percent of the continent of Antarctica is covered by ice. Antarctica has research stations, but not cities, so it is unclear where La Paille, Antarctica is supposed to be. The article never cites a source for this major scientific breakthrough. There is no mention of such a discovery on the Smithsonian Newsdesk. And there is no mention of the alleged archaeologist Damian Waters on the Smithsonian website.

There was a time when Michael Kinsley was the Future Of Liberalism and America's most prominent Public Intellectual. Then he became a crank, and we all became fools, and, anyway, what Digby said.

Ted Cruz's devotion to the Constitution written in the dim canyons of his mind remains undying.

"Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has announced the Senate Democrats are scheduling a vote on a constitutional amendment to give Congress the authority to regulate political speech, because elected officials have decided they don't like it when the citizenry has the temerity to criticize what they've done," he said. "And I'll note this amendment, which has 41 Democratic senators as co-sponsors - 41 Democrats have signed on to repealing the First Amendment," Cruz said. "It explicitly says nothing in this new amendment shall abridge the freedom of the press. "So the New York Times is protected, but it doesn't say the same thing about the freedom of speech," Cruz said. "It doesn't say the same thing about religious liberty."

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Apparently, money is not only now speech, it's also religion. I guess that makes attack ads sacraments. And David Bossie, an archbishop.

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OK, maybe it's an elaborate publicity campaign for Godzilla, but I'm still booking rooms on Patmos, just in case.

Workers have removed 300 bags of fish weighing a total of more than six tons, according to Mackey. The dead anchovies and other fish including stingrays created a silvery blanket on the water's surface and a pungent smell that set off a feeding frenzy among harbor seals, pelicans and seagulls. An octopus was also found among the dead sea life.

Have a great holiday weekend, ya bastids. I'm going to give the gobshites a week off because posting may well be light to none on Monday. Play nice and have fun, and try and keep your skulls the proper size. Me? I'm going to be looking at this picture.

That's a Liberty ship, on convoy in the north Atlantic, at the beginning of World War II. My father commanded the armed guard on a few of these tubs for two years before the Navy sent him to the Pacific on a destroyer. Thanks again, Dad, for helping to save the whole damn thing.